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Controlling Time and Shaping the Self
This book explores new questions and approaches to the rise of autobiographical writing since the early modern period. What motivated more and more men and women to write records of their private life? How could private writing grow into a bestselling genre? How was this rapidly expanding genre influenced by new ideas about history that emerged around 1800? How do we explain the paradox of the apparent privacy of publicity in many autobiographies? Such questions are addressed with reference to well-known autobiographies and an abundance of newfound works by persons hitherto unknown, not only from Europe, but also the Near East, and Japan. This volume features new views of the complex field of historical autobiography studies, and is the first to put the genre in a global perspective.
Making the Personal Political
"Making the Personal Political is an interdisciplinary account of a now forgotten success story in the history of the society and culture of the Netherlands. While Dutch women had apparently retreated into domesticity after gaining the vote in 1919, women writers were out there in the market place selling the inside story of women's lives. Eight case studies of women writers between 1919 and 1970 trace the unconscious politics of the personal in narratives of women's identity and experience through close readings of texts located in the culture of the time. Jane Fenoulhet, whose knowledge of Dutch literature and culture in the twentieth century is unparallelled in the English-speaking world, tracks the public representation of women's private project of self development to the moment when the personal is finally accepted as politically important in Dutch society."
Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1880-2010
This first-of-its-kind anthology offers the English-speaking readers a unique chance to become acquainted with the leading Dutch and Flemish women writers since the 1880s. Covering a representative range of public and private genres from poetry, criticalessays, travel literature and political commentary to diaries and journals, the fifty-six texts are arranged chronologically and are accompagnied by brief introductions, chronologies, and brief guides to the authors and works. An important contribution to our understanding of modern European literary canon and the long march of feminist history and literature. (Dutch ed.: "Schrijvende vrouwen", 978-90-8964-216-5).
Women in Europe between the Wars
The central aim of this interdisciplinary book is to make visible the intentionality behind the 'forgetting' of European women's contributions during the period between the two world wars in the context of politics, culture and society. It also seeks to record and analyse women's agency in the construction and reconstruction of Europe and its nation states after the First World War, and thus to articulate ways in which the writing of women's history necessarily entails the rewriting of everyone's history. By showing that the erasure of women's texts from literary and cultural history was not accidental but was ideologically motivated, the essays explicitly and implicitly contribute to debate...
De publieke man
De criticus, journalist en schrijver Dr. P.H. Ritter Jr. (1882-1962) groeide in het interbellum uit tot een nationale bekendheid, een fenomeen. Hij publiceerde het ene boek na het andere, sprak iedere zondag voor de AVRO over literatuur, recenseerde wekelijks boeken voor het Utrechtsch Dagblad en reisde het hele land door om colleges en lezingen te geven. In De publieke man worden zijn uiteenlopende werkzaamheden voor het eerst in samenhang bestudeerd en in een cultuurhistorische context geplaatst. Alex Rutten laat zien hoe Ritter en andere bevlogen bemiddelaars met behulp van opkomende media en organisaties een groot publiek probeerden te bereiken en op te voeden. Filmvertoningen, krantenrubrieken, radioprogramma’s en volksuniversiteiten werden aangewend om het volk warm te maken voor goede boeken en waardevolle kennis. In een bewogen tijd waarin veel mensen ter ontspanning graag onderuitzakten in bioscopen, pulpblaadjes lazen en naar opwindende jazzmuziek luisterden, bleek dat geen eenvoudige opgave.
Reading Today
New technologies are changing our reading habits. Laptops, e-readers, tablets and other handheld devices supply new platforms for reading, and we must learn to manage them by scrolling, clicking or tapping. Reading Today places reading in current literary and cultural contexts in order to analyse how these contexts challenge our conceptions of who reads, what reading is, how we read, where we read, and for what purposes – and then responds to the questions this analysis raises. Is our reading experience becoming a ‘flat’ one? And does reading in a media environment favour quick reading? Alongside these questions, the contributors unpack emerging strategies of reading.They consider, for example, how paying attention to readers’ emotional reactions as an indispensable component of reading affects our conception of the reading process. Other chapters consider how reading can be explored through such topics as experimental literature, the contemporary encyclopedic novel and the healing power of books.
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Uit de marge
In Uit de marge buigen 29 letterkundigen, historici, filosofen en een jurist zich over fenomenen in de kantlijn van de cultuurgeschiedenis: van Olympische kunstspelen tot een zombie-serial, van negentiende-eeuwse dagbladfeuilletons tot naoorlogse paperbackreeksen, van lesbische romanpersonages tot toneelschuwende gemeentebestuurders en van krantencolumns tot Sinterklaasgedichten. Leidmotieven zijn de spanning tussen high, middle en lowbrow, de argwaan jegens bestsellers, het grillige verloop van reputaties en de tijdloosheid van de culturele omnivoor. De bijdragen zijn geïnspireerd door Erica van Bovens pleidooi voor onderzoek naar populaire cultuuruitingen en vormen samen een kleine geschiedenis van de smaak van het brede publiek.
The Culture of the Publisher's Series, Volume 2
This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.
